NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 15, 2022

Q: More Argentinians are exchanging household goods for food and other necessities to cope with consumer prices, which have increased a whopping 71% over the past year. Where is Argentina, the second-largest country in South America?

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Q: Argentina has one of the highest inflation rates in the world, but it is dwarfed by astronomical price increases in which other South American country?

A. Costa Rica

B. Haiti

C. Honduras

D. Venezuela


D. Venezuela’s consumer prices soared an estimated 5,000% in a year, according to the International Monetary Fund. That is the worst inflation rate in the world and far higher than second-worst Lebanon at 225%. Costa Rica, Haiti and Honduras are in Central America and the Caribbean, which are part of North America.


Q: More than a century ago, Argentina was among the wealthiest 10 nations in the world. In fact, Argentina had a higher gross domestic product (GDP) per person than the United States in 1896. Which nation in South America has the highest GDP per person today?

A. Argentina

B. Brazil

C. Chile

D. Uruguay


C. Chile has a GDP per person of $23,300 a year, followed by Uruguay at $21,600 and Argentina at $19,700. Brazil, the largest and most populous nation in South America, has a GDP per person of $14,100 a year. The United States has a GDP per person of $60,000.


Q: At $70,000 a year, the Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina has a higher GDP per person than the United States. Argentina fought which nation for control of the Falkland Islands?

A. Britain

B. Chile

C. Spain

D. United States


A. In April 1982, Argentine forces invaded the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands and South Georgia islands. Britain sent a naval taskforce to retake the islands, and Argentina surrendered 74 days later. After the war, almost all Falkland islanders voted to remain part of the United Kingdom. The Argentines and British made peace, but Argentina still claims the islands as its territory.


Q: Britain and Argentina also have overlapping claims to territory in Antarctica. Which other nation claims parts of that disputed territory?

A. Australia

B. Chile

C. France

D. Norway


B. The Argentine, British, and Chilean Antarctic sovereignty claims overlap and have caused friction. While seven nations claim parts of the continent, those claims are not recognized by other nations with large scientific operations in Antarctica, such as the United States and Russia.